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It has been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Utah high school football and basketball coaching changes.

Two highly successful small-school coaches, South Summit's Jerry Parker and St. Joseph's Joe Cravens, announced their retirements.

Parker coached South Summit to the last two Class 2A state football championships. He is being replaced by long-time Wildcat assistant Aaron Tillett.

Parker coached his team to 11-1 seasons the past two years. He began his career coaching at the Kamas school in 2005. Last season, South Summit dominated Class 2A foes. In three state tournament games, the Wildcats outscored their opponents 123-20, beating Summit Academy 28-6 in the state title game in Cedar City.

Cravens, the former Utah interim basketball coach who also was the head man at Weber State and Idaho, won two titles and four region championships in five years as the girls' coach at St. Joseph, a 1A Catholic school in Ogden.

He will remain at the school as its guidance counselor and vice president and continue to be a television basketball analyst for three networks. No successor was named.

"I knew going into this year that it would probably be my last," said Cravens. "The television broadcasting opportunities have grown, making it awfully hard to coach. I felt like I had three full-time jobs."

Springville released 11-year boys' basketball coach Chris Kitchen. The Red Devils were 7-96 in the five-year period before he took over during the 2004-2005 season. He finished with an overall record of 125-118, leading Springville to the Class 4A semifinals in 2014.

"We felt we really took the program at rock bottom and [were] building up to be respectable," Kitchen said. "The principal wanted to take the program in a different direction, is all I was told."

In coaching hiring moves, Copper Hills named Tavita Sagapolu its head football coach while Lehi selected Sean Yeager as its new boys' basketball coach.

Sagapolu, a native of Hawaii who has served as an assistant coach at West and Highland, will teach special education at Copper Hills. He replaces John Teuscher, who resigned in early February. Copper Hills finished last season with a 3-7 record and was winless in tough Region 3.

"I took the job not because you are the best team in the state, but because of the potential of what you could become," Sagapolu told parents and athletes last week. "I am in the business of development. My job, along with my staff, is to develop champion student-athletes."

Yeager comes to Lehi from Alta, where he spent the past two seasons as the head girls' basketball coach. He is the former Idaho boys' Coach of the Year. He coached Skyview High of Nampa to a 26-0 record and the Class 4A state championship in 2009. As girls' coach at Alta, he was 32-18.

Yeager replaces Bob Barnes, whose final team went 2-10 in a tough Region 4 and 11-12 overall. The Pioneers have good potential next year, with returning stars Tanner Nygren and Marcus Draney.

"What really drew me to [Lehi] the most is the community and the support that they provide for all of their extracurricular activities," Yeager said. "I really love the support the students and the administration did for their girls' volleyball team this year. It just seemed to be a great place to be a part of."